Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic in America has combined with: A national economic recession and job losses. Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Though crisis standards of care are meant to provide an ethics-based approach to the complex process of allocating scarce health care resources, in reality, they fall short. Even the best laid plans cannot guarantee an equitable division of health care resources. One example is the use of hemodialysis.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It is hard to believe that these advances could disappear in the United States, particularly when COVID-19 variants still swarm over us. After decades of dragging their feet, providers implemented video visits and messaging applications overnight, and the public responded enthusiastically. Yet most of the […].

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

He decides, as the text quotes him, “to start to be twice as careful and be twice as smart… aiming my eyeballs in different directions.” along with health disparities and inequities. Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2022

One big point underneath this big trend is that 21% of employers saw increased disability claims due to long COVID and another 1 in 4 companies expect to see that increase at some point. And long-term mental health issues were seen as the #1 impact coming out of the pandemic.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

in the first near-year of the pandemic, we’ve learned a lot about the science and clinical aspects of the very tricky COVID-19 virus. Ultimately, the Community PPE Index could be considered, “the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Index,” the authors believe. Why redefine, really re-imagine, PPE? In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The timing of this study revealed a key finding related to the virus-crisis: that 4 in 5 Americans believe COVID-19 will fundamentally change how people will receive healthcare in the U.S. In the Age of COVID-19, costs continue to plague the patient experience, across the continuum of care. beyond the pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2022

Care That Matches Your Needs. Grow Therapy was started in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic started because its founders knew that nearly 70% of therapists do not accept insurance due to administrative burdens like all of the paperwork involved to file a claim.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2023

Supporting telehealth where the evidence points to virtual care’s positive impact on patients and the planet is another way we can constructively use our energy to expand both health care access and do right by the environment. million telehealth visits. For more insights into the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

I’ll set the context for our discussion with a few key data points describing consumers-patients-caregivers being re-shaped through the COVID-19 pandemic. These elements all impact our perceptions of safety, trust, access, equity, and empowerment for health care. With the great lockdown, the U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic within prisons. Like these earlier carceral pandemics, the over 620,000 COVID-19 infections and 3,100 related deaths among incarcerated individuals to date simply expose how U.S. health law and policy fails to protect people in custody. By Andrea C.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

consumers said how well a brand responds to the COVID-19 pandemic will have a “huge impact” on the likelihood to buy that brand in the future–and at the same time, 69% of Americans believe brands that people believe put profits before people during the pandemic would lose their trust “forever.” In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This report is our go-to encyclopedia of statistics on health insurance year-after-year, surveying companies’ annual health insurance strategies for coverage and tactics for managing spending and workers’ health outcomes. The coronavirus pandemic has fast-tracked telehealth in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

depression, diabetes, obesity, various cancers, and sexually transmitted infections) as well as prenatal tests, medications that can help prevent HIV, breast cancer, and heart disease, as well as counseling for drug and tobacco use, healthy eating, and other common health concerns. Post-Dobbs era of women’s health access challenges).

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YouCompli

AUGUST 9, 2023

An opportunity to reframe, regroup, and refocus  Now that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is well behind us, we have an opportunity to reframe patient expectations – and regroup and refocus on compliance-related patient care needs. Sign up for YouCompli’s weekly email if you haven’t already.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

A newer category of personal health information, social determinants of health, garners well over one-half of Americans’ interest in access that data.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s more of an “and” than an “or,” we know now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as financial health connects with mental health, physical health, and social/civic health. Yes, to health care access (especially primary care).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. health care financing.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

1] In addition to the challenges presented by provider shortages, even when patients are able to locate an available mental health provider, many are hesitant to engage in treatment due to cost uncertainties, which often arise due to limited availability for in-network care and the subsequent need to seek out-of-network care. [2]

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Once I actually became a health citizen in the EU, I’ve made the personal professional, incorporating the concept as part of my work on ESG principles in health care with my clients and collaborators.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

hospital sees less severe cases Georgia Supreme Court vacates judgement in case with Northside Hospital, NGMC Poor Health: How Is Georgia Addressing The State’s Mental Health Woes? Acquisition of BCBSLA Paused a Second Time It was the biggest health care deal in Louisiana history. And lawmakers are trying to help.

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Innovaare Compliance

JANUARY 19, 2021

The CMS has increased the weight of patient experience measures, which are determined by CAHPS as well as member complaints, health care access, members choosing to leave the plan, appeals, and call center measures, all of which reflect overall member experience. The following section provides a synopsis of the changes for 2021.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2023

This year, MedWand launched the Urban-Rural Healthcare Alliance , having known where the virtual care puck has been going since the company’s inception. That’s cross-industry collaboration, the kind required to solve thorny big challenges like health equity and access to care for all health citizens.

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Hall Render

JUNE 30, 2023

Mary’s Hospital unit closures Two Blessing Health leaders retire on July 1 OSF: Peru hospital to be reopened in fall Expert panel examines policy opportunities at intersection of health and incarceration in Illinois Illinois health policy experts discuss Medicaid managed care and the future of dual-eligible coverage INDIANA 3 big noncompete ban (..)

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic shifts to a more endemic phase — becoming part of peoples’ everyday life for months to come — impacts on peoples’ mental health will persist, according to new research from CVS Health in the company’s annual Health Care Insights Study.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Among the many disparities that COVID-19 has wrought and shone light on since the pandemic’s start has been its unequal and negative impact on people of color in the U.S. That’s certainly true for health and health care access — COVID-19 has shown us.

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

Hospitalist talks tech innovation for staffing shortages and patient access. OSHA accepting new comments on healthcare worker COVID-19 protection rule. OSHA will hold hearing on permanent COVID-19 standard for healthcare workers. Moderna wants the FDA to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 6.

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Hall Render

JULY 28, 2023

million for rural hospital expansion Hospices in Arizona & other states receive scrutiny over concerns of fraud, waste & abuse Phoenix Children’s Building New 44,000-Square Foot Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Firefighters oppose Banner’s planned $400M hospital There’s a growing nurse shortage in Arizona.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 10, 2022

thinking their lives are the same as they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, about one-half of Americans believe that remote work, virtual community events, and telehealth should continue “once the pandemic ends.” not worried about COVID-19. With only 1 in 10 people in the U.S. While most people in the U.S.

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Hall Render

APRIL 1, 2022

Coalition of hospitals, health plans and others urge for stronger guidance around third-party apps. Hospital, long-term care groups again petition Becerra to extend COVID-19 public health emergency. Alaska’s top doctor on living with COVID in the post-restriction era. Now it’s being replaced.

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Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

Health Policy Commission still missing key document in Steward sale to Optum Local obesity drug developer lands deal worth up to $600M with Novo Nordisk Mass. Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’

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Hall Render

JANUARY 19, 2024

investment in clinic chain Harbor Health raises $95.5M in costs, report finds Pennsylvania hospital staff vote for union removal St. in costs, report finds Pennsylvania hospital staff vote for union removal St. Foundation, R.I. EOHHS offering $1.7M

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services announced on Friday it was awarding $10.7 million from the American Rescue Plan to integrate telehealth services into pediatric care. The funding is aimed at expanding behavioral healthcare access for children. For instance, Illinois Gov. ON THE RECORD.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The CDC has stopped printing them Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High URAC to offer health equity accreditation Walgreens CIO is latest to leave in company’s C-suite shakeup AI is creating a complex landscape for healthcare executives ALABAMA Alabama hospital to remain on Cerner after sale Alabama gets $3.6M

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The CDC has stopped printing them Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High URAC to offer health equity accreditation Walgreens CIO is latest to leave in company’s C-suite shakeup AI is creating a complex landscape for healthcare executives ALABAMA Alabama hospital to remain on Cerner after sale Alabama gets $3.6M

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

in billing fraud Arizona system names new CEO Banner Health CEO Peter Fine to retire after 24 years, handing the reins to health system president Four UArizona bioscience startups selected for Flinn Foundation program Gov.

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